Word: communal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Laguna, which once produced half of Mexico's cotton but is now a disaster area (TIME, March 15). Each will be moved by the government, supplied with food for a year, given materials for building a cement-block house, 40 acres of fertile land, plus-on a communal basis-five acres of permanently irrigated land and 56 acres of forest and grazing land. Each town will have a school and a health center with a fulltime doctor and two nurses. The government estimates the cost of the Campeche project at $1,000,000, which the landowning peasants will repay...
...thirties; its heroines are eight nice girls, all or conceivably all of them Episcopalian at some time or another (one needs a revolutionary statistician to set these matters straight), all of them Upper-Middle Class and all of them civilized to that point of Christless High Church rectitude whose communal odor is a cress between Ma Griffe and contraceptive jelly...
...first act, Walser focuses on the foibles of the villagers, but in the second, communal viscissitudes serve only as a debilitating influence on two people struggling to stay afloat. A modern Germanic Everyman, Alois's desire for love and procreation has been perverted by a hyperdermic needle and a heavy dose of ideology. Unable to shift as rapidly as his neighbors and finding his Nazi utterances dated and scorned, Alois slowly drives himself and his wife insane...
Planned Success. Since then, in theory, all a landless Mexican peasant has to do to get a farm is petition the government. If his claim is legitimate, he can then colonize unsettled government lands, join a communal farm called an ejido (pronounced eh-hee-doh), or move onto nearby expropriated plots. Land on any private farm that exceeds the government-set acreage ceiling, running from 250 acres to 1,500 acres, according to improvements, is subject to expropriation without compensation. Since the revolution, governments have parceled out some 125 million acres to 2,700,000 families and established...
...canoe and mule team; ever since, he has talked endlessly of the riches that lie away from the sea, beyond the Andes. To open up the area to farmers and livestock producers, he talks of a new $216 million highway with almost mystical fervor. Another ambition is to start communal self-help programs, following a pattern set back in the old Inca empire days...